Co-Founder & Executive DirectorUltraViolet
Shaunna Thomas is co-founder of UltraViolet, a 1.2M member feminist activist organization in the U.S. known as leaders of the gender-based violence accountability movement and for their campaigns holding corporations and media platforms accountable for gendered disinformation and sexist AI as well as online and offline violence targeting women of color. Shaunna's had a twenty-year career in progressive organizing, culture-change strategies, building progressive infrastructure, and winning critical policy fights at the national level. Before founding UltraViolet, Shaunna was the Co-Founder and Director of the P Street Project, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing progressive members of Congress. Prior to that, Shaunna was the COO of Progressive Caucus Policy Center, a nonprofit supporting the policy and organizing work of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Shaunna has appeared numerous times on network and cable TV including NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC as a political commentator.